Trouble Is My Business Page #7

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We need to get back to

the house I was casing.

Listen Drake, I don't

want to get you turned in,

but I also don't want to be an

accomplice to your peepshow.

Why don't I take you

back to that motel,

and we'll call it even?

No.

(dramatic music)

Mr. Claude Allen,

I asked a question.

You will answer.

(fleshy thudding)

(grunting)

Drake's a good man, detective.

I think you railroaded him.

(smacking)

You will do what I say.

(smacking)

(flash popping)

Arrest them!

We didn't see anything.

You want us to

arrest the reporters?

My family.

(dramatic music)

Extra, extra,

read all about it.

Hey Mr. Drake, up early?

Late.

How 'bout a newspaper Scotty.

Sure thing, lots of bad news.

It should be a good morning.

The DA guy who was

after you got his, huh?

I guess there is justice.

Well I wouldn't

want to be caught dead

at his funeral.

(dramatic music)

[Roland Voiceover] I got

back just ahead of her, Lew.

My whole world had changed

knowing Katherine was

still in it.

I knew that my feelings

for Jennifer were deepening

clouding everything

including the job

she'd hired me to do.

Okay.

Oh good, you got my note.

We need to talk.

Oh yeah, we do.

Okay let me talk first.

So I went back to the

house, packed our bags.

Then I went to check on Johnny.

Roland, he wasn't there.

His body wasn't there.

There was no body, and

I searched that house.

And, there was no body.

And, it scared the

heck out of me,

so I got our stuff

and I came here.

I got out of there

as fast as I could.

Who do you think

moved the body?

Why are you looking

at me like that?

Who do you think moved the body?

Time for a confession.

Roland, I don't

even know what...

I followed you tonight.

Why?

Katherine moved Johnny's body.

What?

Katherine.

You're sitting here

trying to tell me

she's still alive?

Look I know that

you love your sister.

So she's still alive?

Yeah, but you need

to consider the fact

that she might be

behind all of this.

She faked her own disappearance.

This is the genius

of this whole thing.

She's taking bodies and

burying them in open graves.

No body, no crime.

Either that or she's

trying to protect me

because that's what she's

done her entire life, Roland.

You don't know her.

Rivers, he told you about

some guy with the initials GG

when we were at dinner.

So if GG is so important

to keep secret,

maybe we should

be looking for GG.

That would be my

next course of action.

It's unmarked except for GG.

Unmarked mail's the best.

Those are the ones who

don't want to be found.

The man that attacked

us in my office,

he had a matchbook from here.

(dramatic music)

There you go.

Take good care

of it for you, sir.

Don't worry, it's not ours.

(dramatic music)

Is Clark Gable staying here?

Sir, Clark Gable has not

checked into our establishment.

How 'bout William Powell?

Not the William Powell,

but a William Powell.

We may have a celebrity

or celebrities staying here.

Alas, if only you

knew their name,

then I could find him for you.

Shall I call security and

show you the front door.

Nah, we saw it on the way in.

(dramatic music)

You know that five

spot you gave me?

Well someone just

arrived in your car.

Three, two, one, the

receptionist's finger

hesitated on one name.

Receptionist's fingers

always hesitate

on the one name they

don't want to reveal.

(dramatic music)

Two of them, they're

on their way up.

No idea, but they thought

they were very clever.

320, 321, wow you were right.

This is not your room.

Well that's a relief

because you look like you hog

the sheets.

We are here to see Mr. GG.

Mr. GG?

Yes.

I'm sorry Mr. GG

does not see anyone

without an invitation.

I got an invitation

right here.

Good luck.

(dramatic music)

Hi.

Whoa.

(speaking in a foreign language)

Jennifer.

I must say I am very,

very sorry of the events

of the Montemar

household have been

so deeply distressing for you.

And, the infamous Mr. Drake

scourge of the police.

(laughing)

I am Gavron Grozney a friend

of the family you could say.

Let's talk about

the Orlov diamond.

So now you and Miss

Montemar find yourselves

in quite an uncomfortable

position, no?

Really what would that be?

Everyone who comes in

contact with the diamond dies.

You're in contact with it.

You are not a

villain, Mr. Drake.

The whole city has

tried to make you to be

such a person, but try as you

might, I know you are not.

(dramatic music)

The missing Russian girl,

Nadia, she was my niece.

Wait, you're the GG that's

all over her black book?

Not in the customer section,

but you're the busy man

she admired so much?

(speaking in a foreign language)

Information is the

currency of our business,

it's true.

You do not rise to become

the head of the Russian

black market without

knowing the value

of having crippling

information about the corrupt

and inelegant police force.

The pitifulness of

their own corruption

makes them vulnerable

to my temptations.

Was my father's diamond

one of your temptations?

Perhaps.

But, if you have come for

your father's diamond,

you have come

woefully unprepared.

In fact, I am insulted

that you have come to me

bringing nothing but this girl.

(laughing)

(dramatic music)

(laughing)

(metal clanging)

Ow, you stop!

You stop that.

You are woman.

And, you stop hitting me.

(clanging)

(yelling)

(clanging)

[Roland] Yeah,

but that's my girl.

[Jennifer] And now you

seem to find yourself

in a most

uncomfortable position.

(laughing)

(clapping)

Miss Montemar, I

am very impressed.

I'm very impressed.

I can see why Mr. Drake

is so anxious to claim you

for his very own.

Do you have it?

Indeed comrade,

it is close by.

Then give it to me.

No.

Be careful, they might shoot.

This is very frightening.

It is close by, but

not within reach.

Then reach further.

It is where every item

of great value in antiquity

should be, but it is

however not on display.

I'm not prepared to say more.

You don't need to.

A place with

antiquities, a museum.

Not on display, it's

just waiting to be sold

on the black market.

You are on a fool's errand.

My temptations

reach far and wide.

You are an honorable

man, Mr. Drake.

And, I meet so few of

them in this business,

but with her, I suspect

it will always be

unfinished business.

Yeah, that's our problem.

Sadly, one of many I'm afraid.

Listen to me.

Leave this place.

Leave this place,

leave the diamond,

leave the underbelly

of your pasts behind

and start again together

while you still can.

You two are very good together.

I came here for the diamond.

I want what's mine.

No matter who it destroys?

(dramatic music)

[Shadowed Man] Our

papers are being forced

to publish pictures of you

as you've seen fit to

draw us into the light

and have jeopardized our

largest transaction to date,

we have decided you are

permanently out any further

business arrangements.

To use the parlance of

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